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Student-teacher allyship: supporting LGBTQI+ voices in the modern languages classroom
Mazal Oaknín (University College London, UK)
Haydn Kirnon (University College London, UK)
John Gray (UCL Institute of Education, UK)
Laila El-Metoui (Equity and Belonging Consultant)
Jesper Hansen (UCL Arena Centre for Research-Based Education, UK) Jane Traies (University of Sussex, UK)
Jennifer MacDougall (University of Glasgow, UK)
BIODATA: Mazal Oaknín is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She teaches Spanish language and literature at University College London, where she is also a Language Coordinator. She has also taught Spanish in Malaga, New York, Paris and Birmingham. She is the co-editor of Literatura política y política literaria en España: Del Desastre del 98 a Felipe VI (Peter Lang, 2015) and her work has appeared in journals such as Espéculo, Fahrenheit 452, Alba Magazine, Transletters and Argus. Her research focuses on four main areas: contemporary Spanish literature, gender and identity, teaching Spanish as a foreign language, and representations of minorities. Her book Writing, Feminism and the Media in Spain appeared in 2019 (Peter Lang).
BIODATA: Haydn Kirnon is Lecturer (Teaching) in Spanish into English translation at University College London, UK, where he teaches translation in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. He has been a professional translator and subtitler for over thirty years and also worked as a lexicographer on several dictionaries, at Oxford University Press, including the Oxford Beginner's Spanish Dictionary, thereby developing a strong liking for the teaching of translation to would-be linguists.
BIODATA: John Gray is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Education at UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK. His research
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